Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Messing up a perfectly good neck gaiter

Goddammit.

I was so sure that twisting your work would make it impossible to knit on. (Where did I get that idea?) Apparently though, it is perfectly possible to continue knitting and knitting and knitting and actually finishing and binding off to find out you've made a not-so-cool and completely unintentional Moebius strip. Aaaaragghhghhtt!!!And I was so proud I'd finished this Cherry Garcia neck warmer in less than a day. Grrr, I'll cast on again today. No pic of the embarrassing thing because I was too frustrated to take one before I frogged and returned it to ball state:In other startling news: The Cardigan of Doom is all put together, baby! All's I gotsta do is weave in a few -20?- ends, and she can be sent off to Mom in the Netherlands. I'm going to find her a nice pin or clasp to close it, and add a suede cord, like they show in the Rowan booklet:I also cast on for a Candle Flame Shawl, as I promised my best friend Angelina a lace shawl three years ago. I love how it looks so far, and the pattern is very easy to memorize, yet looks real fancy like. Should be even better when blocked:But, unlike Jonna commented to my last post, no, knitting is not all I do around here. ;)In fact, it's been a long time since I've actually been able to sit down and do nothing but knit for at least an hour. For one thing, remodeling the house keeps me pretty occupied:And because I'm still not allowed to have a job, there's the volunteering: volunteer recruitment for these guys (St. James ESL), and socializing kittycats at these guys. Ah, and then this huuuuge house needs to be kept nice 'n clean too. Sucks to be me. ;)

UPDATE: Oh hey, look at that: My mug's been pasted onto the St. James ESL website! Just scroll down a little... That's HOTTT.